About: William Holstein

Warren Buffett is a long-term investor. He believes in holding investment positions that can last for decades. So his decision to sell-out most of his $4 billion investment in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation–shortly after making the investment–is a real wake-up call. He sees geopolitical risk in the form of a military confrontation between the United […]…

News that Chinese goverment officials and state-backed media have taken to Twitter in the United States to defeat governmental and legislative efforts to ban TikTok is just stunning. It proves several things: –The Chinese government recognizes that TikTok is a strategic weapon and must be defended. The arguments that TikTok is not controlled by ByteDance […]…

Mike McLauglin’s and my new article In CPO (Chief Privacy Officer) magazine.  Also look at our Battlefield Cyber book here on Amazon. Pre-order it!…

This is the kind of problem the Chinese governent is going to create for any visible U.S. tech company that tries to reduce its exposure to China. It seems inevitable that there will be many more such actions as the Biden Administration seeks to reduce U.S. support for China/s global tech ambitions. It ain’t going […]…

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to New York triggered condemnation from China. The American media was not present at a dinner her government organized for hundreds of mostly Taiwanese-Americans, apparently because of concerns that coverage would trigger aggressive action from China. But Tsai was unbowed, saying “Taiwan cannot be isolated.” And her government held the […]…